DEBUT Saturday, 27th August 1983 scoring twice in a 5-0 win at home to Derby County

CLUB CAREER 331 League apps (+4 as sub), 147 goals

A striker, Dixon started out as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur. He got his first taste of League football playing for Reading.

In August 1983, Dixon joined Chelsea for £175,000. Pacy, good in the air and effective with both feet, he proved to be a prolific marksman at Stamford Bridge (he scored 147 league goals in 335 appearances). In his first two seasons at Chelsea he scored 70 goals in just 102 games, and his goal tally reached double figures in all but one of his seasons at the club.

On his England debut against West Germany in 1985 (during a friendly international tournament in Mexico), Dixon scored twice in a 3-0 England win. He scored 2 further goals in his second England appearance, but after that the goals dried up and he did not score for England again. He was part of the England squad that went to the 1986 World Cup, but played only 6 minutes during the tournament as a substitute for Gary Lineker. In total, Dixon won 8 international caps, and would have earned more if Lineker had not been first choice - as usual, a Spurs player earning his stripes ahead of a Chelsea player! (Only joking)

With 193 goals in total to his name, Dixon is Chelsea's second highest goal scorer of all time, behind only Bobby Tambling. He left the club in 1992 and joined Southampton in a £575,000 deal. However he left in February 1993 after only 9 league appearances and 2 goals, and joined Luton Town on a free transfer. The highlight of his time at Luton was reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1994, before being knocked-out by his old club Chelsea. He scored 20 goals in 88 appearances for Luton, followed by a spell in the Non League.

Kerry Dixon was my Roy of the Rovers. Not only was he a classy striker - but a classy English striker. What more do you want in a hero? He will always be my number one ahead of any other player for nostalgic reasons. If you were a child in the late 80s then Dixon was your hero; in the late 90s, Zola; and in the 70s, Osgood. He looked cool, played cool, celebrated with two hands up in the air and regularly banged in 20 goals a season. It is a shame he did not stay long enough to achieve a proper testimonial (A six a side game was pathetically organised).

Nowadays, he travels with Chelsea and always seems to be happy to mingle with the fans. I have not been fortunate to bump into him on the European trips, but would find it bizarre to share the company of a man who I worshipped as a young boy. It is strange though - I cannot remember a single Kerry Dixon goal. Maybe it's the alcohol!I LOVE YOU AND SALUTE YOU KERRY DIXON